Little Girl And The Baby Duck She Rescued Are Now BFFs | The Dodo

Oh, what's that? Oh, come on in. Oh, come on in, hugs. Opal and her have had a connection from the very beginning. Let's see, what did you find? A duck. A duck egg? Yeah. Wow. We found this egg by a local pond. It was on the sidewalk. There was other people there walking right around it. Don't touch the egg, don't touch the egg! A number of people there actually told me that is a place where domesticated ducks are often dumped. A couple hours go by and we come back and the egg's still there. It doesn't have a mama, maybe it's a baby. Do you think we should rescue it? Yeah. And so we take the egg home. We got our egg nice and tight? Yeah. Okay, we gotta get the flashlight, right? Okay. So we take a flashlight and there's like a tiny little dot in the middle. Eventually we see like a peck in the egg and I'm like it could be any day now! Hi Starlight! She's there! Look at her! Hi sweet girl! She's taking her first steps. Come on. To see Starlight outside of the shell and to like nurture it all the way through is just like the most exciting thing ever. She's kind of cute. They love reading together. They love playing together. Hi Starlight! And it's just the cutest thing ever. I started doing more and more research about having ducks and I ended up finding out that they still need other ducks around for them to thrive. So we adopted two other ducks from a local rescue. The second we introduced them to Starlight, she just took on this mothering figure. As they've gotten older, she's always leading them. Okay, we're going to the pool now! And the other two are like, alright. Everyone's in the pool. They'll pick up water on like the back of their wings and they'll like slap it off and it splashes Opal. She just thinks it's so funny. We make sure that their environment is like enriching and nourishing. Opal has gained so much confidence. They're all equally loved by Opal. They're all Opal's babies. Giving hugs to all your babies? Opal has been the most caring, loving little mom that you could ever imagine. What are you doing out here in the rain? Oh, how sweet! I can't get up. Are you snuggling? How can I get up? How are you going to get up? Can I sit on my lap and give a baby? Yeah, they sat on your lap. Now she's sitting on your lap now as a big girl, huh? They are an extension of us and we are obsessed with them.